ChickenWinner22
Chirping
- Sep 7, 2021
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Hello I have a 1 year old polish rooster that recently came up with bad sinus infection where there would be yellow stinky goo around it's face/beak. Before I could get around to catching him and putting him in a nursery cage he would lay down all day under cars and sheds.
After about 4 days the infection died down with the help of antibiotics shots and lemon in it's water.
Unfortunately yesterday I went out to check on him from a bigger pen I had put him in so he could stretch and walk I found him bobbing his head towards the sky. Later it proceeded to worsen he would stretch his whole neck and head backward so he would be looking directly up. He couldn't stand well because his fingers would curl up. He would fall over and slip and flip in strange ways.
At first I believe it was some sort of seizure but the unbalanced neck has been on going.
Today I pulled open his body and neck feathers and I was shocked to see hundreds of long bugs and red smaller dot bugs all over his chest/neck. I immediately put on gloves and bathe him in a spray for chickens I got off amazon. It seemed to kill them on the spot.
Could the lice or mites have caused this weird neck dusbalanced?
I have been also giving him vitamin/electrolytes water solution by a syring to his mouth.
What can I do to help him keep living ?
After about 4 days the infection died down with the help of antibiotics shots and lemon in it's water.
Unfortunately yesterday I went out to check on him from a bigger pen I had put him in so he could stretch and walk I found him bobbing his head towards the sky. Later it proceeded to worsen he would stretch his whole neck and head backward so he would be looking directly up. He couldn't stand well because his fingers would curl up. He would fall over and slip and flip in strange ways.
At first I believe it was some sort of seizure but the unbalanced neck has been on going.
Today I pulled open his body and neck feathers and I was shocked to see hundreds of long bugs and red smaller dot bugs all over his chest/neck. I immediately put on gloves and bathe him in a spray for chickens I got off amazon. It seemed to kill them on the spot.
Could the lice or mites have caused this weird neck dusbalanced?
I have been also giving him vitamin/electrolytes water solution by a syring to his mouth.
What can I do to help him keep living ?